Rebecca Houghton

Rebecca Houghton, author of ‘Impact: 10 Ways to Level up your Leadership’ ($29.95), is a Leadership and Talent Expert and founder of BoldHR. Rebecca builds B-Suite leaders with C-Suite impact by working at an organisational, team and individual level. Her passion is helping to evolve how leaders think, take action and relate to others, working with leaders and leadership teams to achieve greater impact.

Rebecca Houghton is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow her on LinkedIn.

Tech and Innovation

How to take the difficult out of difficult conversations

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

According to a 2019 study VitalSmarts, over 50% of employees are avoiding having difficult conversations with their boss, colleagues, or direct reports. What’s worse is that 11% have actually quit their job rather than tackle a tricky topic with a colleague. Fast forward to 2021 as uncertainty, ambiguity and social...

Success and Leadership

Why your reputation is more important than you think

Success and LeadershipRebecca Houghton

When people think of personal reputation management, they immediately think about celebrities or politicians. But everyone has a reputation, and it’s one of your most important assets. A positive reputation attracts great talent to your organisation and helps you negotiate and collaborate more easily. I work extensively with mid-level leaders...

Tech and Innovation

The importance of negotiation in mid-level leadership

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

Far from the laughed-about middle manager of last decade, those that can lead from the middle - the B-Suite - are fast becoming invaluable. They turn strategy into reality and act as an essential translator between the C-Suite and the workforce. Imagine managing through the return-to-office debate without the support...

CEO Advisory

Commentary: How the C-suite can deliver high impact leadership through guiding their B-Suite

CEO AdvisoryRebecca Houghton

The forces that are shaping and reshaping our corporate landscape – technology, competition, geopolitics and demographics – are continuously changing, and are more volatile and disruptive than ever. It means organisational priorities are shifting more rapidly than ever, and we need more leaders to share the load of decision-making, direction-setting...

Tech and Innovation

How organisations can build B-Suite leaders with C-Suite impact

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

The C-suite are chiefs of their domains, responsible for leading a business and its respective departments and, as such, are the most powerful figures in the company. With them lies the responsibility of setting vision, strategy, making decisions and managing risks. But then the global financial crisis happened and things changed,...

Lifestyle and Travel

10 ways to level up your leadership

Lifestyle and TravelRebecca Houghton

The biggest space that leadership programs are failing is middle management. Far from the laughed-about middle manager of last decade, those that can lead from the middle - the B-Suite - are fast becoming invaluable. They turn strategy into reality and act as an essential translator between the C-Suite and...

Lifestyle and Travel

Why we need to lead like Sherlock Holmes

Lifestyle and TravelRebecca Houghton

We know that the challenge of leadership has shifted in the last few years to a greater state of uncertainty, ambiguity, and changeability than we have ever seen. The implication of this is that decision making and judgement is increasingly being devolved to the middle – to the B-Suite. While...

Lifestyle and Travel

Why we need to invest in our B-Suite leaders

Lifestyle and TravelRebecca Houghton

Succession planning is going backwards. Since 1999 there has been continued worldwide slippage in companies that feel they have a decent bench to replace those moving on or retiring. DDI’s recent Global Leadership Forecast reports that 77% of organisations report a leadership gap - a situation that is worsening as...

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